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So far this year I have signed up and committed to do several runs and hiking adventures here's a list of my schedule so far:

Jan 7 Orange County 1/2 Marathon completed
March 31 Seal Beach 5k/10k have not decided which race to do.
May 20 San Francisco Bay to Breaker 12 k 
May 28 Saddle Back 1/2 Marathon 13.1 miles
June 2 Corona Del Mar 5k
June 9 World Famous Camp Pendleton Mud Run 10k
July 13 Hike to top of Half Dome in Yosemite State Park over 17 mile hike.
August 18th Camp Pendleton Sprint Triathlon  500 yard ocean swim, 30K bike ride, 5k run

I will let you all know how I do, wish me luck!

PS: Also in the last 20 day I already  lost 24 lbs of the weight I gained over the holidays almost back done to my lightest weight. Hoping to lose about 40 to 50 more pounds by end of May.

During the Holiday season I actually back slided and gain 30 lbs back. After completing my marathon in October I took a break from my hectic excercise scheduled. And when I mean break I mean break. Instead of running 5 time a week it was down to maybe once a week at time nothing at all, and than instead of going to the gym 4 times a week it was a total stopage. 

And than to make thing worst was that almost everyday we would have holiday treats in the office so instead of passing on them like I should I would stop by and graze on the snack. I knew at one point that I had gain some weight back but never in my imagination did I think I would gain 30 lbs. 

So once that happened I rededicated myself on my running and excercising. I ran a 1/2 marathon on the first weekend of Janaury and have been doing my running and track work to get back down and to continue to loss weight. I also scheduled myself to run the Camp Pendalton Mud run in June and than in July my running group and I plan to hike upHalf Dome in Yosemite Park. Very excited,best part of this new vigor of excercise and running was that I have already losed 14 lbs in the first 10 days!!!!! 

I will update my new plans for this year hopefully now on a monthly basis.     

Since completing my marathon, I have actually started to expand my horizons. I have started to play tennis which I have not played for over 16 years. Like riding a bike I was able to pick it up pretty fast. Still need to work on my serve and back hand but I having a lot of fun playing. Also I been playing a lot more basketball with Team Sapient and will start to run more aggressive in the next few days. I will eventually start my swimming because I found the mini triatholon that I want to do. I will keep you posted on this. That all for now I will write again soon!

It's been 2 week after my marathon and my life now has a void that I need to fill? 

Training for the marathon has been so consuming for the past 6 months that now that I completed the marathon and I do not need to train 5 time  week there a major void that I need to fill. So after much soul searching I  going to start on a new challenge. 

I plan to complete a mini Triathlon sometime next year. Who would think that someone who never really ran before would have completed a Marathon which is 26.2 miles and now train to do a swimming, biking, and running event all done on the same day! 

I will keep you update on my progress and let you all know what event I will be doing my Triathlon.  

For the past 6 month I have invested hundreds of miles training to run a marathon.  All of that training never prepared me for the possiblity of have a blockage on my bypass 2 day before my marathon.

Being 5 year out I really thought I was safe, I have never had any major problems. Beside the occassional dumping.  So I became complacent  sometime making the wrong choices on what I ate and how fast I would eat, I really started to think that I had a normal stomach. I would eat highly caloric foods with a lot of processed sugars,  did not take time to really chew my food like we're supposed to.

Than it happened the worst pain that I have every felt in my life. It felt like someone took a sledge hammer and hit me in my stomach, I was literially on the floor of my studio writhing in pain and throwing up for 5 hours not knowing what was happening. I was stupid or lucky enough to get up and get in my car and drive myself to the ER. 

Once admitted to the ER they took a CAT Scan of my stomach and found a major blockage that was causing the pain. They told me that I would probably have sugery that morning to remove the blockage. All I could think of and say to the Emergency room staff was "Will I be able to run my marathon in 2 days" call me crazy but I had just trained for 6 months to run a marathon.

Luckly the blockage removed itself  I was released from the Hospital in time for me to do my marathon. But before I was released I spoke to the doctor to make sure that It was okay for me to run the marathon. He gave me the green light and 36 hour later I completed my marathon in a safe time of 6 hours 2 minutes. 

I will continue to run but not sure I will be doing another marathon, But I will be doing half marathons for sure.